To:HIS MOTHER

Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 5.

      Sent from Shushenskoye to Podolsk.

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      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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October 11, 1898

Thisweek I have received no news from you, Mother
dearest. I suppose you are fixing things up with Mitya and
the tourists that have arrived. It seems that Anyuta’s trip
was not very successful. That is a great pity because one
does not manage to go to the Crimea very often. How is
Manyasha? Has she left yet? Did they arrange details of
addresses and letters with her? If they did, write and tell
me and I will write to her from here. I am greatly surprised
at the stubborn silence of St. Petersburg; I sent the Webb
translation on August 15 and up to now they have not even
acknowledged receipt of it (I sent it by registered post,
of course, addressed to P.B., care of the warehouse). There
is also amazing silence about the collection of articles;
the last letter was dated August 7 which said that proofs
of over a hundred pages had been read, and means that
the book was half ready. Surely there could not be a delay
of more than a month. Probably it is a fiasco, but even
so I expected them to send me the book (by registered
post—there is nothing inconvenient in that). I am quite
at a loss, but Nadya and I are more and more inclined to
think it a fiasco. That would be unfortunate in the extreme.
I have finished the rough copy of my “markets” and have
begun polishing
it.[1]The writing of the fair copy is
proceeding simultaneously, so I am thinking of sending it
piecemeal and having it printed as I send it, to prevent anydelay (I expect to send the first package off in a month’s
time at the very latest); if the printing of the book begins in
December, it could be in time for this season. It will be
necessary, however (if the previous book was a fiasco), to
find a publisher and conclude a contract with him. I am
writing all this in case Anyuta sees theécrivain—she often goes
to St. Petersburg—or learns something by chance, and in
general (even if she does not see or learn anything) it is
interesting to talk and hear other people’s opinions.

Wehave no news at all. The weather is cold—soon it
will be winter. Autumn this year is not so good as last year.

Regardsto all,Yours,V. U.

Ialmost forgot to tell you that with the last post
(October 8) I sent you a registered packet containing two books,
one issue ofNauchnoye Obozreniyeand one ofVoprosy
Filosofii i Psikhologii; Anyuta asked me to return them both,
and I must apologise for the delay.

[1]By“markets”
Lenin meansThe Development of Capitalism in
Russia.—Ed.